IN the shadow of a half-constructed multi-story plaza between two empty plots strewn with construction rubble, sits a shabby looking shed of concrete blocks and corrugated iron roof.
Published23 Apr, 201305:00am
A NUMBER of months have now passed since the apparently coordinated attacks in Karachi and Peshawar which left five health workers and volunteers dead.
Published15 Apr, 201301:02am
POVERTY is the major challenge faced by developing economies. It represents, simultaneously, a failure on the part of the polity to improve the stock of the least fortunate amongst us as well as a considerable drag on the further expansion of the economy.
Published29 Jul, 201212:05am
EARLIER this year officials at the federal Ministry of Finance and the Pakistan Bureau of Statistics (PBS) had a disagreement.
Published19 Jul, 201212:10am
THEY tried devolving it but the courts and coalitionists blocked them. They’ve been starving it for funds but it still hobbles along. Now they want to bring it to heel.
Published03 Jul, 201212:20am
THE finance minister, Dr Hafeez Shaikh, had barely completed his truncated budget speech that word spread around Islamabad about an imminent approach to the International Monetary Fund for more financing
Published13 Jun, 201212:01am
